11:19 PM,
Sep. 12, 2013

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Miguel Cabrera couldn't keep quiet this week. He thought a pitch had hit him. The umpire called a strike instead.

Cabrera protested. The umpire warned him to stop, then tossed him for ignoring the warning.

That it happened in the first inning was particularly irksome to Tigers fans, many of whom railed against the outsized ego of the umpire, who clearly had a vendetta against Cabrera, in the same way the NFL wants to end Ndamukong Suh's career. ...